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The name "ikman" comes from the Sinhala term "ඉක්මන්" meaning "fast", or "quick". [1] ikman.lk Launched in June 2013 and is owned by Swedish company Saltside Technologies. ikman.lk became the 6th most visited website in Sri Lanka after three months of operation. [2] The site was initially developed by technical teams based in Sweden ...
The Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා පරිපාලන සේවය; śrī laṁkā paripālana sēvaya) is the key administrative service of the Government of Sri Lanka, with civil servants working for both in the Central Government as well as in the provincial councils.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: D. B. Wijetunga [28] [29] Nimal Siripala de Silva: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000: Chandrika Kumaratunga [30] [31] Indika Gunawardena: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 14 September 2001 [31] [32] D. M. Jayaratne: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 10 April 2004: Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Udarata ...
Sri Lanka Post was the first to inaugurate a mail coach service in Asia. The mail coach service began operations in 1832, between Colombo and Kandy. [7] This was extended between Galle and Colombo in 1838. The year 1892 saw the first "Travelling Post Office" doing its run between Colombo and Peradeniya, a suburb of Kandy.
The first permanent post office in the country was established by the British in Colombo in 1882, when the country was a crown colony. [1] It was housed in several different locations until the construction of the General Post Office building at 17 Kings Street (now known as Janadhipathi Mawatha), Colombo Fort, opposite the-then Governor's residence at King's House (now the President's House ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: D. B. Wijetunga [21] [22] Nimal Siripala de Silva: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000: Chandrika Kumaratunga [23] [24] Indika Gunawardena: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 14 September 2001 [24] [25] D. M. Jayaratne: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 10 April 2004: Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Udarata ...
They re-organised the postal service and a permanent post office was established in Colombo in 1882. The first official Post Master General of Ceylon was Egbert Bletterman, who was the PMG for the whole island. In 1817, Lewis Sansoni succeeded Bletterman as the second Postmaster General.
On 8 July 2005 the post office building was gazetted as an Archeological Protected Monument. [9]In June 2017 the United Postal Trade Union went on a three-day strike in order to stop the government's plans to sell the Nuwara Eliya, Kandy and Galle Fort post offices to private developers, in order for the buildings be converted into hotels.